{"id":24570,"date":"2019-08-29T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24570"},"modified":"2019-09-05T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T23:32:03","slug":"ko-holds-off-henderson-victorious-at-cp-womens-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/ko-holds-off-henderson-victorious-at-cp-womens-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko holds off Henderson, victorious at CP Women\u2019s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back-to-back titles just weren\u2019t in the\ncards for Canada\u2019s favourite golfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21-year old Brooke Henderson, the poster\ngirl of the CP Women\u2019s Open held at Magna Golf Club in Aurora, fell seven shots\nback of winner Jin Young Ko by the end of the day on Sunday, following a\nmasterful final round by the world\u2019s number one ranked golfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ko entered Sunday\u2019s finale tied with\nDenmark\u2019s Nicole Broch Larsen atop the leaderboard, just two shots up on the\nCanadian. Yet it was a masterful round of 64 on Sunday, including six birdies\non the back nine, that helped her pull away from the pack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remarkably, Ko went bogey-free\nthroughout all 72 holes in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a post-tournament press conference,\nKo said she knew she had locked up the title on the seventeenth hole, the final\npar three, when she drained her final birdie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI knew already by then,\u201d said Ko.\n\u201cThat\u2019s the time for the win I felt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what was a fantastic moment in\nsportsmanship, Ko called on Henderson to walk with her up the eighteenth\nfairway, where a cheering crowd awaited their past champion and were ready to\nwelcome a new one. The pair walked arm in arm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was an incredible crowd out here,\u201d\nsaid Ko. \u201cLots of fans here, and Koreans, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ko said she told Henderson, \u201cThis crowd\nis for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought that when I walked to the\neighteenth green, I thought that crowd was to Brooke, not me, so yeah, here it\nis in Canada and she has a lot of fans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, I had a great time playing with\nNicole and Brooke. Always happy to play with Brooke, especially here in Canada,\nmore than fun, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth win of Ko\u2019s career on the\nLPGA Tour, no part of her round foreshadowed her victory more than the par five\nninth hole, where she found herself in an unplayable lie after a three wood on\nher second shot kicked into a hazard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She managed to go up-and-down for par,\nleaving herself just four feet to preserve the fifth stroke, to maintain her\ninsurmountable lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When she made that up and down, I\nguess that was kind of it,” said Broch Larsen at the press conference.\n“And then she made birdie, birdie, and then, I mean, that wasn’t the end\nbecause I was still in it but I was a couple behind with few to go.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She’s world number one for a\nreason,” said Henderson. “She’s had an unreal season. I don’t even\nknow, is it four wins now? Four wins on one of the toughest tours there is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There is so much talent out here.\nTo get one win is hard, to get four is really cool.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 26-under score posted by Ko also\nshatters the CP Women\u2019s Open tournament scoring record by three shots, a -23\nposted in the 2016 Open by Yeon Ryu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazingly, Ko decided to play Canada\u2019s\nonly LPGA event at the last second, initially deciding to stay in Korea for a\nweek\u2019s break. What was it that made her final decision? Tim Hortons, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI like ice cappuccino.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henderson takes Sandra Post Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tournament may have well been called\nthe Brooke Henderson fan expo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada\u2019s golden girl\u2019s name, the\nreigning CP Women\u2019s title holder after her win in 2018 in Saksatchewan, was on\nthe lips of just about every spectator that showed up to the tournament, and\nshe did not disappoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite finishing seven shots back of\nKo\u2019s incredible 26-under final score, Henderson once again earned the Sandra\nPost Award, handed out to the low-round Canadian at the Open, where she took\nhome third spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anybody who had the opportunity to see\nher Saturday round was in for a treat: entering the day in a three-way tie for\nthird, three shots back of leader Broch Larsen, Henderson seemed to play her\nway out of any chance for contention by way of bogeys on both the fourth and\nsixth holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The magic began after walking off of the\ngreen at seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a little bit of a struggle\nthere,\u201d said Henderson post-match. \u201cI feel like I was playing decent golf, it\njust wasn\u2019t going my way. Then on the seventh green a little boy gave me a high\nfive and then he continued that the rest of the round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think starting at the time he kind of\ncheered me up a little bit. I think I tried to get back to even on the front\nnine. Going to the eighth tee I was trying to just make two birdies, get it\nback to even, and then see if I could go really low on the back, which I did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three straight birdies followed that\nhigh five, on her way to an incredible nine-under score over the final ten\nholes on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She entered Sunday just two shots back\nof the co-leaders, Broch Larsen and Ko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah, that was fun,\u201d Henderson said of\nher comeback. \u201cIt was nice to have my putter on my side. To be honest, my\nputter has been bailing me out a lot this week. I felt really confident with\nit. It was just a lot of fun out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t really remember the last time I\nwas in the 20s through nine holes\u2026I think just taking into tomorrow, if I can\ntry to keep this momentum and energy that I had on the last few holes,\nhopefully maybe hit it a little bit better off the tee, hit it a little closer,\nand hopefully my putter can bail me out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magna Golf Club was abuzz for\nHenderson\u2019s round on Sunday, with a chance for the first ever back-to-back\nCanadian champions at the tournament on the line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite coming up short in the end, her\nSunday round was nothing to scoff about: she posted a solid score of 69,\nincluding birdies on fourteen and fifteen, though Ko was just one step ahead at\nall times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what better way to close out the\ntournament in Aurora more than Henderson and Ko walking arm-in-arm to the\neighteenth green, the Canadian pride in the crowd almost tangible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We’re both out there to do our\njob, but we respect each other a lot,” said Henderson. “If I couldn’t\nwin, I’m happy she did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You can’t ask for a better person\nor a better golfer to win this championship.” <\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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